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Michael M. Saling is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and conducts research primarily in the fields of Medicine, Neuroscience, and Psychology. Their body of work spans several key subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Emergency Medicine, and Neurology.

The scientist's research focuses on diverse topics such as Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Language Development and Disorders, Epilepsy Research and Treatment, Traumatic Brain Injury Research, Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation, Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances, as well as Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research.

Recent publications include:

  • Frequency and extent of cognitive complaint following adult civilian mild traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2022, Brain Impairment
  • Cerebral Arterial Asymmetries in the Neonate: Insight into the Pathogenesis of Stroke, 2022, Symmetry
  • Psychological distress and gender predict cognitive complaint after adult civilian mild traumatic brain injury in pre-morbidly healthy adults, 2023, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
  • Verbal memory in children with temporal lobe epilepsy: Exploring task-specificity, 2020, Epilepsy & Behavior
  • Macrolinguistic function in temporal lobe epilepsy: a reinterpretation of circumstantiality, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Michael M. Saling has frequently published in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Symmetry
  • Brain Impairment
  • Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
  • Epilepsy & Behavior

Key collaborators include:

  • Fiore D'Aprano
  • Charles B. Malpas
  • Stefanie Roberts
  • Arielle M. Levy
  • Jacqueline F. I. Anderson

Their research often addresses clinical and cognitive aspects of neurological conditions, including epilepsy and mild traumatic brain injury, emphasizing language function, memory, and cognitive complaints following injury or illness. This work integrates neurobiological and psychological perspectives across developmental and adult populations to explore mechanisms underlying neurological and cognitive disorders.

Best Publications

  • The assessment of orientation following concussion in athletes

    David L. Maddocks;Garth D. Dicker;Michael M. Saling

  • Verbal memory in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: beyond material specificity.

    Michael M Saling

  • Functional connectivity networks are disrupted in left temporal lobe epilepsy

    Anthony B. Waites;Regula S. Briellmann;Michael M. Saling;David F. Abbott

  • Paired associate performance in the early detection of DAT.

    Kylie S. Fowler;Michael M. Saling;Elizabeth L. Conway;James M. Semple

  • The 18F-FDG PET cingulate island sign and comparison to 123I-beta-CIT SPECT for diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies.

    Seok Ming Lim;Andrew Katsifis;Victor L Villemagne;Rene Best

  • Lateralization of verbal memory and unilateral hippocampal sclerosis: Evidence of task-specific effects

    Michael M. Saling;Samuel F. Berkovic;Marie F. O'shea;Renate M. Kalnins

  • Fluctuating cognition in dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer’s disease is qualitatively distinct

    J Bradshaw;M Saling;M Hopwood;V Anderson

  • Anterior temporal abnormality in temporal lobe epilepsy A quantitative MRI and histopathologic study

    L.A. Mitchell;G.D. Jackson;R.M. Kalnins;M.M. Saling

  • On psychoanalysis and neuroscience: Freud's attitude to the localizationist tradition.

    Mark Solms;Michael Saling

  • The “burden of normality”: concepts of adjustment after surgery for seizures

    S Wilson;P Bladin;M Saling

  • Factors affecting subjective memory complaints in the AIBL aging study: biomarkers, memory, affect, and age.

    R. Buckley;M.M. Saling;D.J. Ames;C.C. Rowe

  • Pattern and significance of cerebral microemboli during coronary artery bypass grafting

    Stephen Sylivris;Christopher Levi;George Matalanis;Alexander Rosalion

  • Increased risk of cognitive impairment 3 months after mild to moderate first-ever stroke: a Community-Based Prospective Study of Nonaphasic English-Speaking Survivors.

    Velandai K. Srikanth;Amanda G. Thrift;Michael M. Saling;Jacqueline F.I. Anderson

  • The stroke syndrome of striatocapsular infarction.

    Geoffrey A. Donnan;Peter F. Bladin;Samuel F. Berkovic;Wendy A. Longley

  • Neurological control of human sexual behaviour: insights from lesion studies

    Amee Dylan Baird;Sarah J Wilson;Peter F Bladin;Michael Saling

  • Autosomal dominant rolandic epilepsy and speech dyspraxia: a new syndrome with anticipation.

    Ingrid E Scheffer;L Jones;M Pozzebon;R A Howell

  • Visual and Quantitative Analysis of Interictal SPECT with Technetium-99m-HMPAO in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

    Christopher C Rowe;Samuel F Berkovic;M C Austin;Michael M Saling

  • Cognitive side effects of brief pulse electroconvulsive therapy: a review.

    Anna Ingram;Michael M Saling;Isaac Schweitzer

  • Neuropsychological deficits following concussion

    David Maddocks;Michael Saling

  • A high-field functional MRI study of quadri-lingual subjects.

    Regula S Briellmann;Michael M Saling;Ailie B Connell;Anthony B Waites

Frequent Co-Authors

Graeme D. Jackson
Graeme D. Jackson Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Samuel F. Berkovic
Samuel F. Berkovic University of Melbourne
Peter F. Bladin
Peter F. Bladin University of Melbourne
David Ames
David Ames University of Melbourne
Sarah J. Wilson
Sarah J. Wilson University of Melbourne
David F. Abbott
David F. Abbott University of Melbourne
David C. Reutens
David C. Reutens University of Queensland
Amanda G. Wood
Amanda G. Wood Deakin University
Greg Savage
Greg Savage Macquarie University
Vicki Anderson
Vicki Anderson Murdoch Children's Research Institute

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